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Anne Rivers Siddons Books in Order

Anne Rivers Siddons has written 22 books, published between 1975 and 2014. The first book is John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975) and the newest is The Girls of August (2014). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
22
Published
1975–2014
Pages on record
7,779 in 19 of 22 books
Reading time
130–194 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 7,779 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 19 of 22 titles with a page count on record.

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The American South is where Anne Rivers Siddons set her fiction, in novels about families, friendships and the houses and towns that shape both. John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975), a memoir, opens the catalogue; The House Next Door (1978) turns to the uncanny, and Peachtree Road (1989) is the Atlanta novel. Twenty-two titles make up the list, closing with The Girls of August in 2014, at a median of 400 pages.

How many Anne Rivers Siddons books are there?

Anne Rivers Siddons has 22 books, released between 1975 and 2014.

Anne Rivers Siddons Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 22 Anne Rivers Siddons books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of John Chancellor Makes Me Cry by Anne Rivers Siddons (1975)
  2. Cover of Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons (1976)
  3. Cover of Go Straight on Peachtree by Anne Rivers Siddons (1978)
  4. Cover of The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons (1978)
  5. Cover of Fox's Earth by Anne Rivers Siddons (1981)
  6. Cover of Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons (1991)
  7. Cover of Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons (1992)
  8. Cover of Downtown by Anne Rivers Siddons (1994)
  9. Cover of Fault Lines by Anne Rivers Siddons (1995)
  10. Cover of Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons (1997)
  11. Cover of Low Country by Anne Rivers Siddons (1998)
  12. Cover of Islands by Anne Rivers Siddons (2003)
  13. Cover of Sweetwater Creek by Anne Rivers Siddons (2005)
  14. Cover of Rapunzel by Anne Rivers Siddons (2006)
  15. Cover of Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons (2008)
  16. Cover of Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddons (2010)
  17. Cover of The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons (2014)
  1. 1
    John Chancellor Makes Me Cry1975 · 267 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1975267
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  2. 2
    Heartbreak Hotel1976 · 374 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1976374
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  3. 3
    Go Straight on Peachtree1978 · 224 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1978224
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  4. 4
    The House Next Door1978 · 356 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1978356
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  5. 5
    Fox's Earth1981 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1981400
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  6. 6
    Homeplace1987 · confirmed 2/4
    1987–
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  7. 7
    Peachtree Road1989 · 832 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1989832
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  8. 8
    King's Oak1990 · 593 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1990593
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  9. 9
    Outer Banks1991 · 565 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1991565
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  10. 10
    Colony1992 · 600 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1992600
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  11. 11
    Hill Towns1993 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1993400
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  12. 12
    Downtown1994 · 374 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1994374
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  13. 13
    Fault Lines1995 · 352 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995352
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  14. 14
    Up Island1997 · 433 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997433
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  15. 15
    Low Country1998 · 461 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1998461
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  16. 16
    Nora, Nora2000 · confirmed 2/4
    2000–
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  17. 17
    Islands2003 · 465 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2003465
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  18. 18
    Sweetwater Creek2005 · 444 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2005444
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  19. 19
    Rapunzel2006 · 87 pages · confirmed 2/4
    200687
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  20. 20
    Off Season2008 · confirmed 2/4
    2008–
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  21. 21
    Burnt Mountain2010 · 325 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2010325
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  22. 22
    The Girls of August2014 · 227 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014227
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Anne Rivers Siddons books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

22 books

22 Anne Rivers Siddons titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Anne Rivers Siddons Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Anne Rivers Siddons books run from John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975) to The Girls of August (2014), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Anne Rivers Siddons in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Anne Rivers Siddons books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 22 Anne Rivers Siddons books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Anne Rivers Siddons

Start with John Chancellor Makes Me Cry (1975), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Anne Rivers Siddons book?

The Girls of August (2014) is the newest Anne Rivers Siddons book released so far.

Is there a new Anne Rivers Siddons book coming?

No next Anne Rivers Siddons book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Anne Rivers Siddons at a glance

Died
Anne Rivers Siddons died in 2019, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Anne Rivers Siddons on record dates from 2014.
Release pace
Anne Rivers Siddons books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
7,779 pages across the 19 of 22 books with a recorded length, a median of 400 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Anne Rivers Siddons books, 8 of 22, were published in the 1990s.

What the Anne Rivers Siddons books are about

All 22 Anne Rivers Siddons books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: women is tagged on 7 of 22. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.